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Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib

Thesis Title: Multiple Functions of the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encoded Protein ICP34.5 Combat the Host Anti-viral Response

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: David G. DeNardo, PhD

Undergraduate university: Michigan State University, 2023

Program affiliation
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Respiratory immunobiology, with particular interest in cytokine pathways associated with lung epithelial progenitors

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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Ted H. Hansen

Thesis Title: Recognition of Peptide/H-2Ld Complexes by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes I. Requirement for CD8 in Syngeneic Responses II. Role of Peptide in Allogeneic Responses

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Large-scale proteomics and multi-omics data integration to drive biomarker discovery and target identification in neurodegenerative diseases.

Key words
Neurodegeneration, Neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, Proteomics, Systems biology, Gene Regulatory Networks

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan M. Chase

Thesis Title: The Effects of Forest Management Practices on Human Risk of Exposure to Tick-Borne Disease

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: James B. Skeath

Thesis Title: Molecular Regulation of Vertebrate Pigmentation and Stem Cell Quiescence in Larval Zebrafish

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: David Wang

Thesis Title: Bioinformatics for high-throughput virus detection and discovery

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Sheila A. Stewart

Thesis Title: Regulation and inhibition of tumor promoting microenvironments

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Andrea Soranno

Thesis Title: Combining Simulations and Single Molecule Spectroscopy To Understand SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein-RNA Interactions